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Kitchen disaster! Oppssss sorry…

Kitchen is a HEART of a house. Functional kitchen not only acts as a place to cook BUT also as a place for socialization. Kitchen should also be soundly safe for cooking activities. So, how to know if you have a disastrous kitchen?

If any of the following apply to you or your kitchen, then you should do something…..may be buying or renting a new house….lol.

  • Preparing a simple meal such as cooking instant noodle a.k.a. MAGGI is so stressful.
  • Your workspace to do all the chopping is only half meter wide. If you have used the kitchen for more than a year and still have TEN fingers, consider your-self as LUCKY.
  • You can’t cook what you want when you want.
  • The space is overrun with gadgets i.e. the blender, the toaster, the cutleries, the microwave, the multiple chopper, the bread-maker, the kettle. egg slicer, strainer etc.
  • Your kitchen cannot accommodate more than one cook at a time and does not provide sufficient space for your guests.
  • Your appliances are squeezed together until the kitchen looks like electrical store.
  • The floor, surfaces and doors are very sticky and oily…..until you can scoop and reuse them when frying…..euuuwwww


    Do remember these; only buy gadgets that you will use them for at least once in a month. Choose appliances with appropriate size in comparison to the space that you have in the kitchen….do you really need the THREE doors refrigerator! Do give priority to your workspace…..think about where to prepare, where to cook, where to plate the dishes. 

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